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whirled

/ʍɜːld/UK/wɜːld/

whirled is the eye dialect spelling of world.

whirled is the simple past and past participle of whirl.

Meaning of world

Noun

world (plural worlds)

  1. (with "the" or a plural possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general; the reality we live in.
    • In retrospect, the process of economic globalization has meant the end of the world as we knew it.
  2. (with "the" or a singular possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded individually.
    • The period immediately following my divorce seemed like the end of my world.
  3. (metonymically, with-definite-article) A majority of people.
    • Running after God is the only life worth living. Even though the world believes that living for God is boring, we believe that there is nothing more exciting.
  4. The Universe.
  5. (with-definite-article) The Earth, especially in a geopolitical or cultural context, or as the physical planet.
    • People are dying of starvation all over the world.
    Synonyms:
    the earth, Earth, the globe, God's green earth, Sol III, the planet
  6. Any of several possible scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.
    • Who would want to live in a world like this?

See all 31 meanings of world

Meaning of whirl

Verb

whirl (third-person singular simple present whirls, present participle whirling, simple past and past participle whirled)

  1. (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
    • The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience.
  2. (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
    • My head is whirling after all that drink.
    Synonyms:
    swim, reel
  3. (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
    • The dancer whirled his partner round on her toes.
  4. (transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
    • See, see the chariot, and those rushing wheels, / That whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood.c. 1630, John Milton, “The Passion”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC

See all 10 meanings of whirl

Forms of whirled

pluralwhirleds

Words that rhyme with whirled

Questions about whirled

What is whirled the eye dialect spelling of?
Whirled is the eye dialect spelling of world.
How do you pronounce whirled?
Whirled is pronounced /wɜːld/ (UK).

Words near whirled in the dictionary

  1. whirlbats
  2. whirlblast
  3. whirlblasts
  4. whirlbone
  5. whirlbones
  6. whirled
  7. whirleds
  8. whirler
  9. whirlers
  10. whirleth
  11. whirlgig

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whirled (page history and authors); world (page history and authors); whirl (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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